Bücher von Anna Rauch

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 2, University of Innsbruck (Department of English), course: The Urban and the Rural in Australian Literature, language: English, abstract: In my paper I want to talk about the book The Bodysurfers (Robert Drewe) by focusing on the description of the different landscapes and the way people identify with it. I also find it important to mention the mixed feelings of the different characters, all of them living by the coast. While I was reading the book, I could notice the rather different ways of describing the landscapes, each narrator and character senses the surroundings differently. Theenvironment in which the characters are living is one of the main topics of the book, it focuses on the descriptions and provides the reader with the opportunity to ¿live¿ the book and to understand in a better way, how important the sea and the beach are for Australians.In The Bodysurfers the beach is the most popular and most described landscape. It is fantastic how many different ways of ¿seeing¿ and ¿feeling¿ the beach can be found in this book and how different varieties of language can influence the reader byproviding him with many ways of understanding the characters.The Bodysurfers is not an easy book, maybe you have to read it twice, but it can give you a perfect possibility to deal with other nations and cultures and to distinguish between different characters and their ways of speaking and telling. When I wasdealing with my topic I was impressed how ones opinion can change while reading a book, e.g. in one story the beach is described as a lonely and quiet place, in another story as a sand heap full of rubbish.In my paper I want, above all, to show these different ways of describing, on the one hand, describing by using different sorts of language and on the other hand describing, by ¿feeling¿ and observing the place you live in. I want to show, that thesedepictions are the essence of the book and make it vivid, because ¿these stories breathe. Taut yet teeming with life, they are shot through with gritty phrases that catch at one's throat.¿ (Goodreads)

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1, University of Innsbruck (ImoF), course: Developing Reading Strategies, language: English, abstract: The new developed genre of Mini-Sagas is, sadly, not really popular outside of the UnitedKingdom. This realization leads me to introduce Mini-Sagas into a language learningenvironment like schools for example. The following paper deals with Mini-Sagas as a newand innovative genre for writers and readers. Up till today not many attempts have beenmade to design tasks which involve Mini-Sagas as a text-stimulus. Outside of the annualcompetitions which take place in the UK, they seem to have been forgotten in schoolsoutside Great Britain.Firstly, the primary aim of this paper will be to explore the possibilities connected to Mini-Sagas according to their learning and teaching potential with the main focus on improvingthe learners¿ reading skills. The tasks were designed by me, based on several teachinghandbooks concerning teaching English as a foreign language. As I was given the opportunityto try out the tasks in practice and to improve my original approach by including helpfulsuggestions concerning the strengths and weaknesses of the tasks, the paper should providethe reader with an evaluation and discussion of the mentioned tasks. Furthermore, it shoulddescribe the usage of Mini-Sagas in the language classroom according to their advantagesand how the students can benefit concerning reading as well as integrated skills. The firstparagraph will give a detailed overview of the basics of the genre Mini-Sagas and describethe main characteristics of the text type, which are needed to understand the genre and thepresented tasks.